2023 Recap Year end

so long 2023 comfort doll project

2023 wasn’t much better than 2022 for most people, and that was reflected in our fundraising; being one of the leanest years in our history. We are thankful for Canadian Country artist Dallas Smith donating a huge amount of strings from him and his band. And we were able to… Continue reading

Aaron Pritchett Strings for Big Wheel Charity Classic

Aaron Pritchett and Sarah Bramley Big Wheel charity classic comfort doll project

Canadian Country artist Aaron Pritchett has helped our charity for many years, with Comfort Doll photos, and donating strings – so when Aaron created his Big Wheel Charity and was looking for donated items for gift bags – we jumped in with some of the used guitar strings Aaron had… Continue reading

Dallas Smith string results -nearly gone!

Dallas-Smith-Country file photo

Dallas Smith and his entire band donated a good many guitar and bass strings a few months ago when we saw them perform in Kamloops just as the pandemic was ending. We are down to the last very few, and have been able to donate a substantial amount to World… Continue reading Continue reading

How it started

In May 2006 two ladies sat down over coffee to talk about Bono (U2) and how his work with the One Campaign & Global Fund inspired them to want to ‘do’ something to help people in Africa. But what to do? How to make a difference? We came up with… Continue reading

Thanks to our supporters for 2022

2022 was a rough year for so many what with Covid still not quite ended, and the world economy taking a hit – but so many were generous despite personal challenges and it was much appreciated. We were able secure used guitar strings from European heavy metal band Saxon, guitarist… Continue reading